Divorce Support Consultant Services
WhitsonLaw PLLC is proud to announce that we now offer coordinated, non-clinical support alongside every legal case through our Divorce Support Consultant, John J. Haverlick, LCSW-R. With more than 50 years of experience helping families navigate stress and change, John works alongside your WhitsonLaw family attorney to help you stay grounded, think clearly, and make confident decisions from consultation through resolution.
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(518) 719-9576
How Our Divorce Support Consultant Supports You
- Helps you prepare for mediation sessions, depositions, custody evaluations, and court appearances
- Helps you manage difficult emotions so immediate reactions don't drive long-term legal decisions
- Supports improved communication with a co-parent during a high-stress transition
- Helps you organize your concerns and priorities ahead of major discussions or decisions with your attorney
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(518) 719-9576
What Divorce Support Consultant Services Is — and Isn't
- Works alongside your WhitsonLaw attorney, not in place of one
- Your attorney remains fully responsible for legal advice, strategy, and representation
- This is not therapy — John does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions in this role
- Not a substitute for ongoing mental health care
- If your needs go beyond this consultative role, you may be referred to an independent licensed clinician
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(518) 719-9576
A Rare Offering Among New York Family Law Firms
Most family law firms leave their clients to manage the emotional side of divorce entirely on their own — or, at best, hand them a referral list and hope for the best. We take a different approach.
Dedicated Support, Built In
One of the few family law firms in New York to offer a dedicated support consultant directly into our client’s experience — not as an outside referral, but as part of the case team
Stronger Legal Decisions
Recognizes that legal strategy is only as effective as a client's ability to understand it, act on it, and communicate clearly under pressure
Decades of Professional Experience
Brings decades of clinical experience to a role most firms don't offer at all, let alone staff with a credentialed, board-certified professional
Whole-Person Family Law Support
Reflects a broader shift toward whole-person representation in family law — treating divorce as a life transition, not just a legal transaction
Meet John J. Haverlick, LCSW-R
- 50+ years of experience helping children, families, and couples build resilience through stress and change
- Degree from the Columbia University School of Social Work
- Postgraduate training at The Center for Family Learning
- Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work
- New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- Completed Interdisciplinary Collaborative Divorce Training and Mediation Training
- Member, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals
Coordinated Legal and Personal Support, All at One Family Law Firm
WhitsonLaw PLLC serves clients throughout Essex, clinton, Warren, Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schoharie, Greene, Franklin, Fulton, Columbia, & Washington Counties, with offices in Saratoga Springs, Albany, Elizabethtown and Plattsburgh, New York. We offer both in-person and virtual services in divorce, child custody, child support, spousal support, family and divorce mediation, and other related family law matters.
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(518) 719-9576